GETTING INTERESTING.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 20 April 1916, Page 3

GETTING INTERESTING.

TO THE EDITOR

Sm,—l have just read Mr McLeod's funny little letter in your last. He first states in about three different ways that I do not know what I am talking about when I discuss the condition of Town Board affairs when the present Board took office. He then concludes his letter with a rather pretty Irish, bull. In dealing with Mr McLeod's chairmanship, I have used that charity which covers a multitude of sins. Mr McLeod's worst lapses have so far been passed over. Unfortunately Mr McLeod is much more unkind to himself than lam to him. He has now in two letters alleged by implication that he left the Town Board's affairs in such confusion and the records so imperfect that I cannot find out how things are. Now, sir, your readers are probably aware that I am a barrister and solicitor of some 20 years' standing ; I have been a member of various local bodies for nearly as long ; for three years I was solicitor to the Whangarei Borough Council, and for five years solicitor to the Hobsoon County Council; incidentally I hold the respectable University degree in law of Master of Laws ; and I have had 18 months to unravel the tangle of Helensville Town Board affairs. Yet, in the face' of these facts, Mr McLeod fancies that he has tangled things up to such an extent as to foil my efforts to find out the position. Mr McLeod's worst enemy never uttered such a sweeping condemnation of him and his actions as he has himself brought forward in those two letters to your paper. I made a number of specific allegations in my last, against Mr McLeod's conduct of affairs. Mr McLeod owes it to the public, whose representative he was, to explain. A mere implied " general denial is absolutely useless. In Court pleadings such a denial is accounted an admission, and this rule is a good rule when deciding upon the truth or falseness of any charge.—l am, etc.,

E. Thurlow Field,